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title: "2 Going False Quotes by 1 author"
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> [“But this thing that almost never was still beckons, I wanted to tell him. They can never undo it, never unwrite it, never unlive it, or relive it—it's just stuck there like a vision of fireflies on a summer field…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/but-this-thing-that-almost-never-was-still-beckons-i-wanted-to-tell/)

[André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/)

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> [“we’ll speak about two young men who found much happiness for a few weeks and lived the remainder of their lives dipping cotton swabs into that bowl of happiness, fearing they’d use it up, without daring to drink more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-aciman/we-ll-speak-about-two-young-men-who-found-much-happiness-for-a-few/)

[André Aciman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-aciman/)

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